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...night last week, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell quietly slipped into enemy territory and outlined a plan for psychological warfare. Before 300 well-groomed members of the Democratic Club of Evanston, one of Chicago's richest suburbs, Mitchell admitted that the party is in trouble in suburbia. While Democratic candidates pile up healthy majorities in such cities as New York, Chicago and Cleveland, they take a real walloping just outside the city limits. Adlai Stevenson's 161,000-vote margin in Chicago last year was more than erased by a 177,000 majority for Eisenhower in suburban Cook...
Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
Also elected were Joshua Kurland Kopp, Dorchester, Mass. and Lowell, Physics; Frederick London Moolten, Highland Park, N. J. and Lowell, Biochemistry; Jack Jacob Neusner, West Hartford, Connecticut and Kirkland, History; David Marvin Osnos, Detroit and Kirkland, English; Herbert Victor Prochnow, Jr. Evanston, Illinois and Eliot, Economics...
...interests-plus the job of looking for new ones-keep him busy, but because of a heart ailment many years ago, he usually gets to bed by 10. To keep in trim, he swims twice a day in the basement pool in his is-room house in Evanston. The Crown mind, however, is always racing with plans for future deals or improvements on past ones. Recently on a visit to the Empire State Building, Crown was amazed to hear that in the previous month the building had taken in $180,000 from sightseers who paid $1.20 a head...
There was nothing odd about the brown-eyed lady walking down the street of Evanston, Ill. one day last week-except that two little boys kept shrieking: "There she is! .There she is!" Adult passers-by could not help but stop and look. To most of them, Dr. Frances Horwich of Roosevelt College was probably unknown. But to the small fry of Chicago and its suburbs, Miss Frances is a celebrity...